User:Hunter Kahn/Rotworld

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"Rotworld" was a major comic book crossover event created by writers Scott Snyder and Jeff Lemire, who had been writing the books Swamp Thing and Animal Man, respectively, since the New 52 relaunch of all DC Comics titles in September 2011. Since their first issues, the storylines of both books involved three elemental forces that connect all elements of life: the Green, the Red and the Rot. The Green connects all forms of plant life, while the Red connects all human and animal life, and the Rot is associated with death and decay. All three elements are needed to sustain life, but the world come become imperiled if any one element becomes too powerful, and each elements serve to counter-balance each other and maintain a balance. In their individual series, Swamp Thing and Animal Man had been fighting to stop the Rot from disrupting that balance and defeating the Green and Red. "Rotworld" is set in a near future when the Rot has succeeded and taken over the entire planet, leaving the DC Comics superheroes dead or trapped in a post-apocalyptic world.